2informal A person having a secret allegiance to a political creed, especially communism.
Example sentencesExamples
Back then, kilts were worn only by crypto - nationalists, lunatics on day release from the asylum or Gaels who hadn't quite come to terms with the fact that Flora MacDonald would never be returning to Skye.
Indeed, he regards the national push for a high-tech salve for security anxieties as a reprise of his own early and erroneous beliefs about the transforming power of strong crypto.
So I use this term crypto - Marxist, which I think has the image of a kind of secret code.
Definition of crypto in US English:
crypto
nounˈkriptō
1
short for cryptography
2informal A person having a secret allegiance to a political creed, especially communism.
Example sentencesExamples
Back then, kilts were worn only by crypto - nationalists, lunatics on day release from the asylum or Gaels who hadn't quite come to terms with the fact that Flora MacDonald would never be returning to Skye.
Indeed, he regards the national push for a high-tech salve for security anxieties as a reprise of his own early and erroneous beliefs about the transforming power of strong crypto.
So I use this term crypto - Marxist, which I think has the image of a kind of secret code.